Dot Net Mafia

Group site for developer blogs dealing with (usually) Ionic, .NET, SharePoint, Office 365, Mobile Development, and other Microsoft products, as well as some discussion of general programming related concepts.

I’m working on my PowerShell for SharePoint 2013 (SPC195) talk for SPC12 and I find this new cmdlet so useful I thought I would share it immediately. The cmdlet is Copy-SPSite and it’s easy to use. Just run it and before you know it, you’ll have a duplicate of a site collection on a fresh...

I’ve recently taken an interest to building Windows Store Apps (aka Windows 8 Metro). Not because I think I can get rich in the Windows Store but because I think it provides a unique way to present SharePoint data. If you’re like me, you probably assumed Windows Store App development was...

We have a brand new REST based API for interacting with Search in SharePoint 2013 Preview. Unfortunately, there is not a lot of information out there yet on how to interact with it. I have pieced together a couple of bits to help get you started. If you are looking to bring Search into...

NOTE: This post is build with Visual Studio 2012 RC and Preview 1 of the Office Developer Tools. See this post for an update with Preview 2 of the Office Developer Tools and the RTM version of SharePoint 2013. I am extremely interested in the new SharePoint 2013 App model so I have been doing a...

Napa is a great way to get started building SharePoint 2013 apps with Office 365. It provides you an easy-to-use editor that allows you make changes to your app right in your browser. One nice feature it has is to allow you to take what you built and import it as a Visual Studio project. ...

If you have installed SharePoint 2013 Preview, you might have noticed that pretty much every bit of available memory is being consumed. Where is it all going? Search of course. In my post from last week, I mentioned noderunner.exe. These are the processes that hosts the individual...